Research & Resources

Scott Rigby, gaming psychology expert, delivers keynote at 2015 GiGse Conference on Why Mobile Games are Winning Mindshare. “To improve player retention” Rigby notes that “developers must understand player motivation and engagement at a higher resolution, both conceptually and in the data they collect to

By Kris Graft | February 4, 2015 This Gamasutra article explores how Warner Bros. Games’ studio Monolith designed the Nemesis system of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) concepts and imploring Immersyve’s engagement metrics called the Player Experience of Need Satisfaction (PENS).

“Why has gamification exploded in its popularity over the past two to three years, and what specifically is gamification seeking to achieve?” Immersyve’s president Scott Rigby addresses these questions and further explores how to apply principles of motivation and engagement to gamification in the newly released

By Ben Bradford | January 9, 2015 Many children of a certain generation have a warm place in their heart for classic Nintendo games like Mario and Zelda. As adults, they’re spending to rediscover it… Games can range from a few dollars to a

By Ben Reeves | September 25, 2014 To view full article, click here. ….In order to better understand why gamers are sometimes drawn to challenging experiences, I talked with Dr. Scott Rigby, president of Immersyve, a research firm that has worked with companies like Warner

By Scott Rigby and Richard Ryan Published in 2011 by Praeger (Santa Barbara, California) “As games mature, and the average age of gamers continues to rise, we can hope that game scholarship will evolve as well, and Glued to Games” is a good step

By Andrew Przybylski, Edward Deci, C. Scott Rigby, & Richard Ryan. Published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol 106, pp 441-457). Do games foster aggression? The extent to which games contribute to aggression is hotly debated. In this research based on Self-Determination

Mindfulness, Interest-Taking, and Self-Regulation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Role of Awareness in Optimal Functioning By C. Scott Rigby, Patricia Schultz, & Richard Ryan This chapter appears in the comprehensive Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, released in April 2014, which brings together the

Presented by Scott Rigby and Troy Skinner | At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA (March 19-21, 2014) In this presentation at GDC, Rigby and Skinner discuss The Importance of the Player Experience of Autonomy and how this can be implemented in